gnome "storage" project, smart windows

[Phillip Susi]

Hah, what a coincidence.  I was just grumbling about how updatedb runs 
every day when I boot up and spins the hell out of my hard drive for 5 
mins.  I thought "hey, doesn't the kernel have a mechanism these days to 
notify a monitoring daemon about changes in the filesystem?  Why doesn't 
someone write a program that monitors for the changes and updates the db 
rather than rescanning the entire filesystem each day?"

It sounds like that's kind of what this beagle thing does... I'll have 
to check into it.

Matt Price wrote:
> hey folks,
> 
>  some time ago there was an ambitious gnome project called storage: 
> http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/features.html
> 
> it seems to have died, far as I can tell.  Beagle is the nearest thing
> we've got, I guess, though KDE is working on this thing called tenor,
> for kde 4:
> http://appeal.kde.org/wiki/Tenor
> 
> anyway, I love beagle, am just getting used to its awesome power, but
> I would like to have slightly more robust interfaces e.g. "smart
> folders" à la MacOS, with beagle-derived search results updated every
> time you open the "folder"  (so it's not really a folder, but an alias
> for a command I guess.  
> 
> Has anyone implemented anything of this sort?  and/or, does anyone
> know whether "storage" still exists in development somewhere?
> 
> THanks much,
> 
> Matt